Jun-05-20 I Livshin vs P Romanovsky, 1956
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| Caissas Clown: 1-0. Why ? |
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Jun-04-20 Morozevich vs H Hamdouchi, 2001 
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| Caissas Clown: Fairly simple for a Thursday.Like some others,I too went for 33.Bb4 which also seems to work , though more slowly.Whether Bb4 or a6 , the N on f3 is doing a sterling defensive job. |
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Feb-05-20 K Petzold vs A Dreev, 2008
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| Caissas Clown: Stale.Mate: <What was the point of 27. Bf5 ? TIA>. Saves the Bishop. White would've preferred to move the Queen , but she must been exhausted. |
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Nov-18-19 Geller vs Karpov, 1976
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| Caissas Clown: <schnarre>: I'm embarrassed to admit that until today , I did not know he'd ever played it. But there it is in the Chessgames.com database : 5 wins,12 draws, 2 losses. Two of the wins,he was 10/11 years old,two were in the Melody Amber Rapid,one in a simul. |
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Oct-07-19 Tal vs P Mejic, 1974
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| Caissas Clown: Tal the Mejician. |
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Aug-29-19 Polugaevsky vs A David, 1994
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| Caissas Clown: Fascinating game. Was Lev undone due to underestimating his opponent?? Or was it more likely his illness,which took him from us the following year? |
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Aug-29-19 A David vs Das Arpan, 2018
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| Caissas Clown: Dear oh dear! I was in "Monday Mode",so wasted a few minutes trying to make 26.Qxh7 work i/o 26.Nxh7! Once I fixed that,I thought it was fairly simple for a Thursday puzzle. |
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Aug-08-19 Serper vs I Nikolaidis, 1993
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| Caissas Clown: I have just watched a wonderfully precise endgame by Capablanca. Instructive,sure - but I would much sooner watch a game like this.Absolutely electric! |
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Jul-30-19 Kamsky vs Karpov, 1996
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| Caissas Clown: Gettin' old - took me over 5 minutes to realise why 20...Rxc3 would have been a blunder. |
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Jul-22-19 I Nepomniachtchi vs Nisipeanu, 2019
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| Caissas Clown: Difficult to believe that a GM could play so poorly.I know this Anand vs Gelfand, 2012 is a disaster,but that was due to bad calculation,rather than terrible strategy. |
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